Category: tidbits
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Biggest, tallest, deepest…
Updated 1/12/2026 As we have traveled across the US and Canada we have been intrigued and amused by the many large sculptures and “world’s largest” claims, so we decided to collect them in this post. Updates from our 2025 Travels Collinsville, Illinois The World’s Largest Catsup bottle is a water tower built in 1949 for…
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We stopped in the liquor store in Edmundson, NB to pick up a bottle of Bourbon. We were hoping to find Yellowstone Bourbon, which we first discovered while shopping on Prince Edward Island last year, but The Wiseman or even Knob Creek would do. Coastal Nova Scotia weather was looking to be cool, with highs…
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Great Grub 2024 update
A great thing about traveling is that there are always new restaurants, food trucks, bakeries and diners to try. We have written about the good food locations we visited last year in the post, Great Grub. In this update we will share some old favorites and new places that we visited in 2024. Resch’s Bakery,…
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Hartman Rock Garden
Imagine being laid off from work. Now imagine it’s 1932, during the Great Depression, and you’ve been laid off by your employer. What would you do? In 1932, Ben Hartman faced that scenario and he began creating art in his back yard. He continued to do so until his death from occupational exposure to silica…
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Murals: Walls that tell a story
(First published February 2-24, Updated July 2025) One of the under appreciated joys of traveling by car or RV is the ability to take a detour off the highway and visit small towns along the route. While scrolling through our Photos Library we discovered that we had captured images of a number of murals in…